Glucose Revolution: The life-changing power of balancing your blood sugar

by Jessie Inchauspé

For most of us, our body is a black box: we know its functions but not exactly how it works. We often decide what to have for lunch based on what we read or hear, rather than based on what our body truly needs.

‘The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain,’ wrote the philosopher Alan Watts.

These are usually justified under the guise of ‘what matters is how much you eat – processed foods and sugar aren’t inherently bad.’ But science is demonstrating the opposite: processed foods and sugar are inherently bad for us, even if we don’t eat them in caloric excess.

Exciting discoveries have happened in the past five years in labs around the world: they’ve revealed our body’s reaction to food in real time – and have proven that although what we eat matters, how we eat it – in which order, combination, and grouping – matters too.